192 Mr. P. H. Gosse on some new British Sea- Anemones. 



prominence situated just above the petiole, and it is upon tlie 

 margin of this prominence that the stipules originate. The 

 flower is expanded into a broad bell, with a reflected margin, 

 which is 1 to 1 J inch in diameter; the three outer sepals are 

 10 lines long and 5 lines broad, somewhat obtuse at their sum- 

 mit, and narrower toward the base ; the three inner sepals are 

 9 lines long, 3 lines broad, more acute at the summit, and still 

 narrower at base. The six petals are shorter, almost linear, 

 obtusely acuminate at the summit, attenuated at the base, and 

 nearly equal in size, 5 lines long and 1 line broad in the widest 

 part ; the stamens are 3 lines long, the filaments being slender 

 below, swelling above into a thick, fleshy, fusiform connective, 

 in which the two sterile anther-cells are extrorsely imbedded, 

 the connective terminating in a curved excurrent point. The 

 three ovaries are 7 lines long, \\ line in diameter, 1-locular, 

 with six projecting parietal parallel placentse, each bearing a 

 number of minute, almost peltate ovules, supported upon a short 

 prominent funicle, with a horizontal or sub-ascending direction. 

 The fruit is cylindrical, torulose, six-grooved, apiculated by the 

 persistent style. If inch long, 1 inch in diameter; the peri- 

 carp is thin and coriaceous, extremely friable and of granular 

 texture when dry; it is unilocular, and filled with a mucilaginous 

 pulp, of a pleasant, sweet, and subacid taste, which dries into a 

 thin epidermis that invests the seeds, and leaves a vacuity in the 

 centre, without the vestige of any division. This is contrary to 

 the statement of Ruiz and Pavon and other authors, who de- 

 scribe the fruit of L. biternata as being 6- or 8-locular. The 

 seeds are very numerous, ovate, somewhat compressed, often 

 subangular by mutual pressure, and are attached to the wall of 

 the pericarp in a somewhat horizontal position by a small hilum ; 

 they are arranged in six very distinct series; they are about 

 5 lines long, 4 lines broad from the hilum to the more convex 

 side, and 3 lines broad in the other transverse direction. Their 

 structure has been already fully described*. 



XX. — Characters and Descriptions of some new British Sea- 

 Anemones. By Philip H. Gosse, F.R.S. 



Fam. Sagartiadae. 



Genus Phellia (mihi). 



Column pillar-like in expansion ; margin tentaculate, without 

 parapet or fosse. Surface smooth, pierced with loop-holes, partly 



* A drawing of this species, with full details of the stnieture of its 

 flower and seeds, is given in the ' Contributions to Botany,' plate 28. 



